Fall Guys is a new kind of battle royale game in the ever-growing genre. Instead of fighting to the death, you compete in various mini-games until only one player is left standing. Think of it as a 60-person competitive Mario Party or WarioWare. Only a certain number of players can pass through each round, and only one person can claim the crown.
Legendary is a new competitive reality TV show about ball culture on HBO Max. Eight houses compete in weekly themed balls for a grand prize of $100,000 and the title of Superior House. The categories all come from the ball culture you might recognize from Paris is Burning or Pose: face, modeling, vogue, body, etc.
The Mid-Chapter Patch tweaked a few things here and there (the aura change is going to get patched out soon, so it’s not even worth addressing), but the main attraction is the rework of The Hillbilly and The Cannibal (Leatherface). Hillbilly has been one of the top killers since the game first began, a chainsaw wielding mountain man with massive map control and a one-shot down. Leatherface, meanwhile, has existed in the game as a way to get Barbecue & Chili, a tracking and BP point for killers that let’s you see where all the survivors are on a map when someone is hooked. The two chainsaw killers were nowhere near each other in ability or popularity and Behaviour Interactive wanted to address that.
Yes, Barn Finders is a hidden object/adventure/simulation/sci-fi game about finding and selling antiques. You visit various locations for the price of gas, hunting down specific objects requested by clients over email. Occasionally you have to compete with other sellers at auctions, bidding within your budget to buy a property or storage unit to rummage through. You then return to your store, put the objects for sale, go to bed, and open the shop to haggle with customers the next morning.
Douglas is a very different special in a lot of ways. For one thing, it’s not a standup special about trauma. Gadsby makes that clear in her prelude, a delightful device where she quite literally announces the exact order of her set and the intentions of key moments before beginning the actual show. No, this special has a much lighter tone than Nanette. It also feels more like a traditional standup special, though director Madeleine Perry keeps the focus on Gadsby with clear camera work and multiple angles.
